{"id":18745,"date":"2017-10-25T16:09:01","date_gmt":"2017-10-25T20:09:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=18745"},"modified":"2017-10-25T16:09:01","modified_gmt":"2017-10-25T20:09:01","slug":"mayors-breakfast-of-champions-spotlight-ducks-swimming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/mayors-breakfast-of-champions-spotlight-ducks-swimming\/","title":{"rendered":"MAYOR&#8217;S BREAKFAST OF CHAMPIONS SPOTLIGHT: Ducks Swimming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Holly Biasi of Ducks Swimming won two gold medals in February at the 2017 Swim Ontario Winter Festival  Provincial Championships for Girls 13, in both the 50 m and 100 m Freestyle events, as well as a silver medal in the 100 m Butterfly.  Holly performed personal best times in all 3 of her events, setting two Ducks Club Records for Girls 13, 50 m and 100 m Freestyle, 27.39 and 1:00.14, respectively.<br \/>\nHolly repeated her Double Gold feat in June at the 2017 Swim Ontario Summer Festival  Provincial Championships in the Girls 14 Category, winning the 50 m and 100 m Freestyle Events.  Holly broke the magic minute mark for 100 m Freestyle, clocking an impressive 59.48.<br \/>\nHolly also anchored the 4 x 50 m Medley relay, securing a Silver Medal, along with team mates:  Sydney LeBlanc (Backstroke), Abi Juhola (Breaststroke), Phoebe Redfern (Butterfly) and Holly Biasi (Freestyle).<br \/>\nFourteen year old Stephen Liu of Ducks Swimming capturedtwo Gold in June at the 2017 Swim Ontario Summer Festival Provincial Championships in the 200 m Freestyle and 200 m Backstroke, as well as a Bronze Medal in the 100 m Breaststroke.  Stephen Liu also set a New Ducks Club Record, Boys 14, 200 m Freestyle , with a time of 2:04.24.  He also established New Club Records for Boys 14, for both the 100 m Back and 200 m Back, with times of 1:04.02 and 2:16.13, respectively.<br \/>\nAbigail Juhola (14) of Ducks Swimming delivered the Gold Medal performance in the 200 m Breaststroke event at the 2017 Ontario Summer AA Provincial Championships held in June.  A great performance and a personal best by over 2 seconds.  Abi also placed 6th in the 100 m Breaststroke.<br \/>\nThirteen year-old George Zizakovic of Ducks Swimming claimed the gold medal in the 200 m Breaststroke in a time of 2.49.35 seconds at the 2017 Ontario Summer AA Provincial Championship with a huge personal best and a new Ducks Club Record.  George also competed in the 100 m Breaststroke and the 400 m Freestyle events where he earned top 8 positions.  Leading into the Provincial meet George was also victorious at Central Regional Championship where he won the 200 m Breaststroke.<br \/>\nBrent Davison of Ducks Swimming stepped twice to the podium at the 2017 Ontario Summer AA Provincial Championship.  Brent claimed the bronze medal in the 200 m Butterfly event. On the last day of the meet he earned a win in a very close race in the 200 m Backstroke.  Brent raced 4 events at Provincials and earned a personal best time for each race.  He was also the lead of the 4x50m freestyle relay that came 8th in the final.<br \/>\nThomas Nelander made a triumphant return to the 2017 Ontario Open Water Championships at Professor\u203as Lake in Brampton. Thomas surpassed last year\u203as 3rd place finish, reaching the top of the podium and earning Gold for Boys 13 years in the 2 km Distance Event.  Thomas also raced in the pool at AA Provincial Championships where he won 2 Bronze Medals for the 100 m backstroke and 100 m butterfly events, a testament to Thomas\u2019s tremendous versatility.<\/p>\n<a class=\"synved-social-button synved-social-button-share synved-social-size-24 synved-social-resolution-single synved-social-provider-facebook nolightbox\" data-provider=\"facebook\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"Share on Facebook\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.newspapers-online.com%2Fauroran%2Fwp-json%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fposts%2F18745&amp;t=MAYOR%E2%80%99S%20BREAKFAST%20OF%20CHAMPIONS%20SPOTLIGHT%3A%20Ducks%20Swimming&amp;s=100&amp;p[url]=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.newspapers-online.com%2Fauroran%2Fwp-json%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fposts%2F18745&amp;p[images][0]=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.newspapers-online.com%2Fauroran%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2017%2F10%2F2017-10-26-03.jpg&amp;p[title]=MAYOR%E2%80%99S%20BREAKFAST%20OF%20CHAMPIONS%20SPOTLIGHT%3A%20Ducks%20Swimming\" style=\"font-size: 0px;width:24px;height:24px;margin:0;margin-bottom:5px;margin-right:5px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Facebook\" title=\"Share on Facebook\" class=\"synved-share-image synved-social-image synved-social-image-share\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" style=\"display: inline;width:24px;height:24px;margin: 0;padding: 0;border: none;box-shadow: none\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-content\/plugins\/social-media-feather\/synved-social\/image\/social\/regular\/48x48\/facebook.png\" \/><\/a><a class=\"synved-social-button synved-social-button-share synved-social-size-24 synved-social-resolution-single synved-social-provider-twitter nolightbox\" data-provider=\"twitter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"Share on Twitter\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.newspapers-online.com%2Fauroran%2Fwp-json%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fposts%2F18745&amp;text=Like%3F\" style=\"font-size: 0px;width:24px;height:24px;margin:0;margin-bottom:5px;margin-right:5px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"twitter\" title=\"Share on Twitter\" class=\"synved-share-image synved-social-image synved-social-image-share\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" style=\"display: inline;width:24px;height:24px;margin: 0;padding: 0;border: none;box-shadow: none\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-content\/plugins\/social-media-feather\/synved-social\/image\/social\/regular\/48x48\/twitter.png\" \/><\/a><a class=\"synved-social-button synved-social-button-share synved-social-size-24 synved-social-resolution-single synved-social-provider-mail nolightbox\" data-provider=\"mail\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"Share by email\" href=\"mailto:?subject=MAYOR%E2%80%99S%20BREAKFAST%20OF%20CHAMPIONS%20SPOTLIGHT%3A%20Ducks%20Swimming&amp;body=Like%3F:%20https%3A%2F%2Fwww.newspapers-online.com%2Fauroran%2Fwp-json%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fposts%2F18745\" style=\"font-size: 0px;width:24px;height:24px;margin:0;margin-bottom:5px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"mail\" title=\"Share by email\" class=\"synved-share-image synved-social-image synved-social-image-share\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" style=\"display: inline;width:24px;height:24px;margin: 0;padding: 0;border: none;box-shadow: none\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-content\/plugins\/social-media-feather\/synved-social\/image\/social\/regular\/48x48\/mail.png\" \/><\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Holly Biasi of Ducks Swimming won two gold medals in February at the 2017 Swim Ontario Winter Festival Provincial Championships for Girls 13, in both the 50 m and 100 m Freestyle events, as well as a silver medal in the 100 m Butterfly. 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